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When God Was a Rabbit Book

1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like 'slag'; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home a Shirley Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly of course a rabbit called God. In a childhood peppered with moments both ordinary and extraordinary Elly's one constant is her brother Joe. Twenty years on Elly and Joe are fully grown and as close as they ever were. Until that is one bright morning when a single earth-shattering event threatens to destroy their bond forever. Spanning four decades and moving between suburban Essex the wild coast of Cornwall and the streets of New York this is a story about childhood eccentricity the darker side of love and sex the pull and power of family ties loss and life. More than anything it's a story about love in all its forms.Read More

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  • ASDA

    WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades from 1968 onwards this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that shape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood and growing up loss of innocence eccentricity familial ties and friendships love and life. Stripped down to its bare bones it's about the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister.

  • Blackwell

    Both a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT has been praised as one of the most striking and original novels of the year. 1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther...

  • TheBookPeople

    The debut novel from Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit is a stunning and eccentric tale of love, life and a loss of innocence. It takes a look at the unbreakable family bond that exists between brother and sister.

  • 0755379306
  • 9780755379309
  • Sarah Winman
  • 12 May 2011
  • Headline Review
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352

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